Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture
by Tom Linkinen
Description
This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry.
Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected“and was inflected by“gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period.
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Endorsements
"Tom Linkinen's study focuses on a variety of definitions, attitudes, beliefs and emotions about same-sex sexuality in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." - Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota
"Linkinen's work goes beyond previous work on same-sex relations in medieval Europe in several ways. Linkinen's work is deeply historical. The combined image of the plural and somewhat contradictory voices and shared understanding appears as something entirely new.'" - Professor Jonas Liliequist, University of Umeå, Sweden
Author Biography
Dr Tom Linkinen is a cultural historian in the department of Cultural history, University of Turku, a founder member of the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the chairperson of the Queer-studies Society of Finland.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date April 2015
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789089646293
- Publication Country or regionNetherlands
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 99 EUR
- Pages388
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234x156 mm
- Illustration6 b/w
- SeriesCrossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Series Part1
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